Imaging diagnosis apparatus having needling navigation control system and a needling navigation controlling method

An imaging apparatus comprising:

• scanned data acquiring circuitry configured to acquire data from a scan region on an object;
• a puncturing needle position detector configured to detect a position of a puncturing needle inserted in a body of the object;
• processing circuitry configured to
• generate a puncturing navigation image by a rendering process or projection process of a three dimensional image of a target region set by usinu the acquired data along an inserting direction of the puncturing needle as an eye direction such that images of a needle position of the puncturing needle and an insertion error region viewed from the inserting direction are superimposed on an image of a representation of the target region viewed from the inserting direction in the puncturing navigation image and such that the image of the needle position is located at a center portion in a display area where the puncturing navigation data is displayed, wherein the image of the insertion error region is a circle image lamer than the image of the needle position and resized according to the needle position, and the image of the needle position is within the image of the insertion error region;
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• a display including a screen and configured to display the puncturing navigation image on the display area of the screen of the display.

A needling navigation controlling method for an imaging apparatus, the needling navigation controlling method comprising:

• acquiring data from a scan region on an object;
• detecting a position of a puncturing needle inserted in a body of the object;
• generating a puncturing navigation image by a rendering a process or projection process of a three dimensional image of a target region included in set by using the acquired data along an inserting direction of the puncturing needle as an eye direction such that images of a needle position of the puncturing needle and an insertion error region viewed from the inserting direction are superimposed on an image of a representation of the target region viewed from the inserting direction in the puncturing navigation data and such that the image of the needle position is located at a center portion in a display area where the puncturing navigation data is displayed, wherein the image of the insertion error region is a circle image larger than the image of the needle position and resized according to the needle position, and the image of the needle position is within the image of the insertion error region:
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• displaying the puncturing navigation data on the display area of a screen.